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New Musical Express (NME)Sometimes you wish Meloy would just put away his studied thesp-schlock and say, "Man, I'm sick of singing about Victorian peasants. I got dumped once. I want to write about that..." [27 Jan 2007, p.31]
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Most of The Crane Wife consists of rehashes of Decemberists staples and by-the-books, cookie-cutter indie pop that runs the gamut between pleasant enough ("O, Valencia!") and barely tolerable ("Summersong").
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 145 out of 161
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Mixed: 10 out of 161
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Negative: 6 out of 161
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Mar 28, 2012
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Dec 15, 2012
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Oct 30, 2011